Farmall H tractor

Dwashebek

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I?m looking to purchase a 1946 farmall H tractor. It has supposedly been completely restored and rebuilt. I am familiar with similar vintage John Deere tractors, but not Farmalls. Is theatre anything I need to be aware of with these Farmall tractors?
 
I've had one for 30 years. Love it. Replaced the minor stuff, brakes, seals, clutch, etc. Steering worm gear. Lined the fuel tank, rebuilt the carb. Great tractor, parts available world-wide. They made 390,000 of them. Wins first place in Christmas parades every year.
 
Only thing I can caution you about is that they are a lot like eating potato chips - you can't eat just one.
 
(quoted from post at 15:59:31 09/05/18) I?m looking to purchase a 1946 farmall H tractor. It has supposedly been completely restored and rebuilt. I am familiar with similar vintage John Deere tractors, but not Farmalls. Is theatre anything I need to be aware of with these Farmall tractors?

Farmalls and John Deeres all wear out and need periodic repairs and maintenance. If you can work on one brand, you can work on the other brand.
 
No problems except normal wear and maintenance.good,simple bullet proof tractors. One of the best. I highly recommend them.
 
You will wonder why you wasted all that time and money on those 2 cylinder contraptions once you get a Farmall. I always felt sorry for the neighbors who tried to farm with Deere's.

I have the '51 M Dad bought brand new out in the shop, and the '54 Super H he traded my '39 H for May of 1968. I've spent enough time on old Deere's to dislike them, R, B, A, 60, etc.
 
Ive got a 48 H and a 50 Cub Demonstrator and a 40 B. Ive not done anything to the H other than replace thermostats and brakes, and carb kit. I farm with it yet. The B, I bought another as junk and traded out the engines, and got new brakes on it, and carb kit. The Cub has both L side axles broke, so I havnt run it in awhile.
I Do agree with the poster who said they liked hearing a Deere run. I grew up on As and a B, and I miss that sound also.
 
Thank you to all who commented. I am a John Deere guy, but have always wanted a Farmall tractor as well. I own a 1940 JD H and a 1947 JD A, both fully restored. I don't farm with them, they're just toys to ride in parades or around to my neighbors for cocktails!
 
I have always thought the Farmall H and M models were probably some of the best tractors for their size ever designed. They are simple to work on, and very durable if you make any effort at all to do basic maintenance. About te only weakness in the H is that there was a tendency for the 5th gear to go bad, causing the tractor to jump out of that gear. It can be fixed, however.
 
Never heard that about 5th gear. Had a 41 that Grandpa bought in 49 and had untill 84 used hard and never a problem with that. Ran it side by side with a 49 B Deere and the Deere would jump out of 3rd gear. Pulled identical plows with both at same speed. One following other on same ground. Farmal was quicker and easier to steer for quick turn with the 9' mower-conditioner than the Deere but Deere was on cultivators. Liked both. The roll-a-matic made Deere easier in plowing if you got front end in furrow and Farmall was lacking speeds of 5th and 6th in Deere but 5th in Farmall was faster in 5th for road travel. Each complmated the other. Wish I still had both.
 
5th gear is not necessarily weak. In fact, it is not even a true anther set of gears at all. The unique design of the farmall tranny allowed the engineers to gain another speed out of the design without adding another costly set of gears. So with basically the same # parts that were in the competitors 4 speed tractors of 1939 the farmall had 5 speeds. This is both a feature gain while also a cost gain for the consumer. Just one of the many reasons 400k of the units were sold along with other reasons too of course for so many sold.


Biggest reason 5th lets go is all the speed shifts of trying to shift from 4th to 5th while on the move. Some guys can do it and some can not. The h are great tractors, but do lack a little bit in engine torque to get a large load moving in 5th so 4th to 5th shifts were common especially on distillate or worse yet kerosene model as they had a little less power than the gas only models. But even the gas models were not torque monsters either.


I love my 1951 Farmall h gas model.
 
5th gear is not necessarily weak. In fact, it is not even a true anther set of gears at all. The unique design of the farmall tranny allowed the engineers to gain another speed out of the design without adding another costly set of gears. So with basically the same # parts that were in the competitors 4 speed tractors of 1939 the farmall had 5 speeds. This is both a feature gain while also a cost gain for the consumer. Just one of the many reasons 400k of the units were sold along with other reasons too of course for so many sold.


Biggest reason 5th lets go is all the speed shifts of trying to shift from 4th to 5th while on the move. Some guys can do it and some can not. The h are great tractors, but do lack a little bit in engine torque to get a large load moving in 5th so 4th to 5th shifts were common especially on distillate or worse yet kerosene model as they had a little less power than the gas only models. But even the gas models were not torque monsters either.


I love my 1951 Farmall h gas model.
 

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